The value of information technology (IT) investment comes increasingly from its ability to complement and enable business strategies and organizational capabilities. As a general purpose technology, however, IT could either a complement or a constraint. Making the right IT investment, particularly the right IT infrastructure investment could thus have far-reaching impact on a firm " s IT invest...

South Africa has a serious backlog in investment for the development and management of water infrastructure. This study aimed to assess measures, needs priorities infrastructure (engineering realities) through following objectives: (i) measurement investments which demonstrate budgets required; (ii) understanding current priorities, including benefits limitations; (iii) principles characteristi...

This article reports six overarching lessons learned from seven pioneering initiatives in the pay-for-quality (P4Q) movement. These lessons relate to the specific design and implementation challenges sponsors of P4Q programs can expect. The lessons are: (1) P4Q can prioritize providers' quality goals, (2) provider engagement is difficult, (3) P4Q escalates concerns for data accuracy and validit...

This paper empirically assesses United States direct investment in the European Union. In that respect, market size, growth rate, labor costs, export flows and tariff barriers have already been shown to influence U.S. foreign direct investment in the European Union. The present paper enlarges the field of knowledge on the matter by: (i) exploring the impact of two locational determinants of for...

The paper considers the local provision of public infrastructure when population is mobile. It shows that inflexible deficit limitation may result in too little local public investment if population is perfectly mobile in the long run. Conversely, given the existence of migration externalities, implementing Musgrave's pay as you use finance, according to which new debt should match net investme...

Regulation and other forms of public policy toward infrastructure industries were and are designed to support the necessary large-scale investment. Throughout history, with few exceptions, rather pragmatic approaches guided policies. A more rigorous lens was only applied more recently although it often focuses on narrow aspects of regulation. In contrast, this paper develops a broader, integrat...

Mark Jamison is Director of the Public Utility Research Center (PURC), Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. Before joining PURC in 1996, he was Manager of Regulatory Policy at Sprint. Prior to joining Sprint, he worked nine years for state regulatory commission staffs at the Iowa Utilities Board and the Kansas Corporation Commission. He earned his PhD at the University of Flor...

JEL Bibliographic Code O15, O18, O47, O53 We postulate that inferior factor productivity in China’s noncoastal provinces is a principal reason for their lower economic growth despite high investment rates relative to provincial GDP. We flnd that TFP is roughly twice as high in the coastal provinces and estimate that investment in higher education and foreign direct investment help explain the p...